Dragon Sword Awakening Pets Guide: Recruit and Develop Companions

Dragon Sword: Awakening calls its pet companions familiars. Open the familiar or companion interface when it becomes available, check the recruitment requirements for each entry, and complete the listed quest, activity, or exchange. After recruiting one, select it from your collection, apply available development materials, and confirm the updated level or effect before leaving the menu.

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How pets work in Dragon Sword Awakening

Pets are presented as familiars in the available game references. The familiar system is separate from playable heroes, mounts, and ordinary equipment, so a locked companion should not be treated as a missing character or mount.

Familiars are grouped into eight categories: Insect, Squirrel, Cat, Bird, Sky Wolf, Direwolf, Gryphon, and Dragon. The category affects how the collection is organized, but the supplied evidence does not establish a universal combat ranking or confirm that every category uses the same recruitment route.

Because requirements can change with updates, use the locked familiar’s own detail panel as the final authority. Read its source, required item, quest name, activity, or exchange condition before committing resources.

Recruit your first familiar

Use this process whenever you find a locked pet entry:

1. Open the familiar, pet, or companion feature from the game’s available menus. If it is absent, continue the main quest instead of searching for an unverified NPC or location.
2. Choose a locked familiar and open its details. Look for the exact recruitment condition and note whether it names a quest, reward, exchange, event, or other activity.
3. Complete only the named requirement. Main quests and hero quests are documented recruitment routes for characters, but that evidence should not be assumed to apply to every familiar.
4. Return to the familiar details panel and claim or activate the entry if a separate confirmation button appears.
5. Check the owned or collected filter. A successful recruitment should change the entry from locked to owned, collected, active, or another equivalent state.

Do not rely on a reward animation alone. The collection state is the useful verification point, especially after an exchange or quest completion.

Verify that recruitment counted

Confirm the result before closing the menu:

1. Open the familiar collection and search for the companion by category or name.
2. Confirm that the entry has an owned state, portrait, level, or selectable control instead of a lock icon.
3. Open the details screen and check whether the familiar can be selected, deployed, equipped, or assigned.
4. Record the visible level, quality, effect, and remaining materials. This gives you a baseline before development.

If the companion is owned but does not appear beside your character, it may be collected without being active. Check for a separate deploy or equip action. A familiar collection entry and a visible field companion are not necessarily the same state.

Develop familiars without wasting materials

Development names and costs should be read from the current familiar screen because the supplied references confirm the collection categories but do not provide a reliable universal upgrade table. Use this safe order:

1. Select one familiar that matches the effect or role you actually need.
2. Open its development panel and inspect the next level’s cost and displayed benefit.
3. Apply a small upgrade first rather than spending every material at once.
4. Confirm that the level, attribute, rating, or effect changed after the transaction.
5. Compare the new result with your previous baseline before upgrading another companion.

Prioritize dependable, clearly explained benefits over a higher-looking category or rarity. Avoid claiming that Dragon or Gryphon familiars are automatically best unless the current client shows a relevant advantage. Keep a reserve for a familiar whose requirements or role become clearer later.

Fix a missing familiar or upgrade

When recruitment or development appears not to work, use the following checks in order:

1. Reopen the familiar collection and remove any category, rarity, or owned-only filter that could hide the entry.
2. Check quest completion, activity rewards, inventory, mail, and exchange history if the requirement involved a reward or item.
3. Return to the original detail panel and look for a claim, activate, deploy, or confirm button.
4. Leave and reopen the menu, then verify the displayed level and material count.
5. Compare the exact on-screen requirement with the guide or video you used. Older instructions may show different costs or terminology.

If materials disappeared without an owned state or level change, do not repeat the purchase or exchange. Capture the visible result, restart the game normally, and check the same collection and reward screens again. If the state remains unchanged, report the transaction through the game’s supported channel with the item name, time, and displayed requirement.

Evrima and Legacy clarification

There is no Evrima-versus-Legacy split for this Dragon Sword: Awakening pets guide. Those labels refer to separate versions of The Isle, whose mechanics include dinosaurs, scent, bleeding, and growth. Do not apply The Isle controls, progression advice, or companion assumptions to Dragon Sword: Awakening. For this guide, the current game’s familiar collection and detail panels are the verification source.

Sources and verification

• DragonSword: Awakening Guide: How to Unlock All Familiars
• DragonSword: Awakening Ultimate Beginner’s Guide | GAMES.GG
• How To Get All Characters In Dragonsword Awakening – GameRant